Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...came from people anxious for peace and hungering for quick solutions. Most of the letters endorsed McMahon's proposal of a $50 billion global Marshall Plan (TIME, Feb. 13) that would promise Russia and other nations fistfuls of U.S. dollars if Russia would only promise to outlaw the atom bomb. Many seemed to think that there was no other alternative: it was either McMahon's proposal or what he called "an attack that might incinerate 50 million Americans in . . . the space of minutes...
...long ago many scientists feared that the public was forgetting the menace of the atom bomb. What many responsible scientists fear now is public hysteria caused by exaggeration of the destructiveness of the hydrogen bomb...
...peculiar kind of private citizen," is the way David Lilienthal characterizes his present situation. Just how peculiar that situation is was made clear at the press conference held last week before his Symphony Hall talk--Lihienthal the private citizen, speaking on the peacetime possibilities of the atom, felt compelled to dodge all questions relating to the AEC and the present status of atomic weapons, a matter until quite recently under the considerable control of Lilienthal the government official...
...those fellows who has much faith in push-button peace," he remarked in ducking a question on international atomic controls. He described the atom bomb as "a gadget built up in the public mind to much more than its military value," although he made no bones about it being a terrible weapon, and suggested that the present furor--particularly over the McMahon proposals--might be a similar search for "a gadget for peace." He deplored the tendency for some people "who get attention" to overplay the strength of the atom as a weapon...
There is much that he probably won't say even in the book he plans to write: but Lilienthal is perhaps the one public figure who realizes the importance of discussing the atom. "Fear and anxiety do nothing but put us in the doldrums," he explains. He is one man who exhibits neither fear nor doldrums over his big problems...